He worked on it throughout the 1970s with Dennis Ritchie.
Richie and Thompson
Kenneth Thompson
He created the Unix operating system with Ken Thompson
Dennis Richie
To create a Free OS like the UNIX Operating System, They wanted to create a system that was like UNIX without all of the intellectual property issues that UNIX had. (UNIX was proprietary software).
The principals were Richie and Thompson, along later with Kernighan (for C).
Yes. UNIX is a computer operating system.
Yes, Unix is system software. It is a kind of operating system.
Unix is one of the oldest but still most popular Operating Systems. It was invented in 1969 at AT&T Bell Labs by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. All the contemporary operating systems of Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, AIX are variants of Unix.
Unix came first; Linux is a clone of the Unix Operating System.
Sorry but for me the fathers of OS are Kenneth Lane Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, creators of UNIX Bill Gates
In the legal sense, no. Unix is an operating system and has the components of an NOS (Network Operating System) but it not considered just a network operating system.